Happy Impeachment! Next step is removal. (Trump thread 98)

[TheClaws]

In the last thread, Trump was impeached by Congress. Now the question is when the articles will be sent to the Senate for Trial, as - at this stage - there is no guarantee from Mitch McConnell of a fair trial. Trump clings to his belief that his call to Zelensky was “perfect”.

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3732056-Trump-and-the-Giant-Impeachment-Trump-thread-97

I'm sorry; I am shocked now. What Rachel seemed to be saying was that the reason Lev Parnas is talking is because he is afraid of what might happen to him if only he knows things: that he might be silenced in a final sort of way.

This is the United States of America, not a banana republic or Russia!

He really ought not to be expecting that the clown in the White House or the clown's stooges will arrange for him to die unless he makes sure the evidence will still remain even if he is dead!

Don't forget that Putin has his long, sticky fingers in this particular Trumpian pie. It's not just the quid pro quo of withholding funding for a Biden investigation. It's also Russia and the Ukraine and all that entails. When you start digging in the landfill you may find more than one body. And Putin wants his bodies to stay well hidden.

I put nothing past Putin when it comes to silencing people.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-trial-today-twitter-press-conference-senate-a9287651.html

I think the Parnas Piper is now paid by someone else, hence his new tune, perhaps always was.
Who can forget the way trump puffed up his lapel that time when his dreamboat Putin smiled upon him, I think that vile old lizard has them all by the balls
(ewww:( sorry:( )

I had forgotten. Putin, of course. Not because he gives a stuff about Trump: he doesn't. But for his own reasons. Thank you.

Part 2 of Parnas tonight on Rachel

Lordy, there's more Parnas? What on earth more can he say, it was bad enough so far...

I put nothing past Putin when it comes to silencing people

Absolutely, he's good at that

I find it unbelievable that Trump has said he doesn't know Parnas, doesn't know what he's about, doesn't know where he's come from...
Yet... I've just seen on Twitter yet more footage of Trump with Parnas and chatting to him. No idea why he lies about such obvious stuff.

Rhino, is that why all women have to go? Because they haven't got balls to be got by?

I am so glad the Independent has finally published a photo that does Trump justice....

I think mostly they are all pawns in Putin's games

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/neal-katyal-trump-testify_n_5e1c0fe9c5b650c621e107ca?ri18n=true

Um ...

The Hill @TheHill 2hr

President Trump: "Tragically, there is a growing totalitarian impulse on the far left that seeks to punish, restrict, and even prohibit religious expression." hill.cm/WykcMmB

For those interested in economics:

www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/16/america-is-weaponising-its-currency-and-financial-system

Trump still vigorously denying he knows Lev Parnas.

Yet Parnas worked for the Trump Organisation and Fred Trump in the 80s and Parnas's son worked on the Trump campaign...

hillreporter.com/lev-parnas-worked-for-the-trump-organization-in-the-1980s-55935

Sounds like they have history ...bigly!!

Is it going to be someone he hadn't even thought of who lays him low in the end?

It usually is some tiny, seemingly insignificant detail (or person) that ends up leading to the miscreant, isn't it Asking?🕵🏼‍♀️ Or at least that's the way the crime shows work.

I still don't think he'll end up being removed from office but I do think that if more info continues to trickle out that more and more people will be giving him the 'side-eye' and thinking twice about voting for him. At least that's what I'm hoping.

I think that was what I meant, Across. Just think of Lev Parnas as a horseshoe nail!

His rump I mean sorry base will vote for him no matter what, and threaten armed insurrection when the presidency is taken away from him no matter how it comes about, but I suspect that more and more Republicans who are not his mindless fanatical followers will start to decide they will simply not vote, and more and more undecided voters will decide against him on the basis of what is now being revealed about his criminal behaviour and treason.

someone he hadn't even thought of
you're flattering him here, he doesnt actually think, he just lets his impulses flow :o
but yes I agree, it'll probably be something that his 'stoopid like a fox' brain has overlooked

Hmm, I think I still despise Mitch more. But it's a tough call.

Poll shows Collins displaces McConnell as most unpopular senator
thehill.com/homenews/senate/478702-poll-shows-collins-displaces-mcconnell-as-most-unpopular-senator

McConnell is who he is, he doesn't even try to hide it anymore. Collins tries to pander to both sides. Her rank hypocrisy angers me more than Moscow Mitch's blatant dishonesty and lack of ethics.

I wouldn't turn my back on either of them I'd I was one of their fellow legislators.

If. Not I'd

Maybe it will be like a third rate King Lear and one of the beloved or less beloved offspring will break cover/save their own arse/stage an intervention.

It won't have the poetry, the soul or the pity of that play but still ...

Oh dear.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/17/ken-starr-alan-dershowitz-trump-impeachment-legal-team

Was anyone expecting him not to have at least some sleazeballs to represent him?

But but but... Where is Guiliani?

Obeying orders for once.?

Sorry. And keeping Schtum.....